[Gov 649] Re: [governance] European IGF meeting

[JFC Morfin]

Wolfgang,
we are in agreement on what you say. The disagreement is on the facts that:

(1) on the EP side: we were not invited, while others we daily oppose 
or internationally opposed to (and are/were defeated according to the 
rules of the concerned arenas - meaning their representativeness is 
less established than our's) were invited in good order.

(2) on the CS side: we tend to give too much importance to the 
regalian domain, forgetting the co-initiative capacity and duty of 
the civil society and lead users. The win^5 is if every of the 
regalian, civil, private, international and technical poles take the 
lead whenever they can, as the EP, Eurodig, france at large did.

Right now the priority, IMHO is to make the Internet governance, 
adminance and rights a european election campaign citizen issue. 
Every help/cooperation to that end are welcome.

jfc


At 21:54 11/04/2009, Kleinwächter, Wolfgang wrote:
>My understanding of the EP Hearing that it is a consequence of the 
>EP Resolution on the IGF from January 1997. The rersolution says 
>that a European IGF should be held in the 1st quarter of 2009. So 
>that EP was obliged to do something before the election. April is 
>already late.
>
>I do not see a contradiction between the Hearing and EURODIG. In 
>contrary it gives the whole process more visibility and continuity. 
>This will be a win-win. There was another EP/ITRE Hearing in 
>November 2008 in Strasbourg also with Madame Trautmann. Here we 
>discussed, inter alia, the relationship between EP and EURODIG and 
>we came to the conlusion that the best solution is to see EURODIG as 
>a process with various events (national and sub-regional) in between 
>and one big all-European event which is EURODIG II in Geneva in 
>September this year.
>
>It is nonsense to create an artificial conflict between the 27 
>member states of the EU/EP and the 48 member states of the COE. We 
>all know that Europe is bigger than the 27 but we also know that 
>EURODIG has to embrace the Commission and the Parliament (and the 
>council) otherwise it would weaken itself and would not be taken 
>seriously as THE regional European IG event.
>
>Lets work hand in hand and concentrate more on substance than on procedures.
>
>Wolfgang

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